Another engineer and I designed these annoying magnets back in the 70s. They consisted of a bar magnet and a non-magnetic bell clapper on a hinge in the middle of the magnet. The magnet would clank from water currents. The sub would have to surface to remove them. They did no damage to the sub, but could be heard for miles under water.
You’re the man to ask this question then:
The Soviets didn’t have titanium hulls on at least some submarines?
I can see those things being dumped by the thousands with little pingers on them. They would have to die sometime though since if they didn’t the ocean would have to be littered with little pingers. Clappers and simple and cheap though.
What did the Soviets do, if anything, to counteract these things? Did they dump them on our boats?
Bravo Zulu